earth's best defender

starting a series I’m calling “Stuff I like in Baseball”

imagine you are a sheep. Imagine you are the smartest sheep in the entire world and yet your understanding of the world is so small. Imagine you are the wisest sheep in the flock and you carry the memory of everyone who came before so everyone else can be happy. Imagine being a winter lamb and dying for your flock. Imagine you are a good shepherd so loved by his flock that your sheep would do anything, even defy who they are, in order to avenge you.

mopple shows love by telling comforting lies for his friends and making himself a shoulder to cry on even when the other sheep don’t even remember what they’re upset about. every so often, a little truth slips through and he has to scramble to cover it up. eventually, his lies fall apart and he has to admit to the isolation that acting this way has caused him. (“you’ve carried this alone all this time?” “yes.”)